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GAME BOARD.

No. 540,197. Patented May 28, 1895.

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FREDERICK C. STOCKDEIiL, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,197, dated May 28,1 895..

Application filed September 21, 1894. Serial No. 523,726. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whoml t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. STOCK- DELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident ot' Atlanta, in the county of Fultonand State of Georgia, have made certain new and useful Improvements inGame- Boards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, suchv as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters andfigures of reference marked thereon, which forni a part of thisspecification.

This device consists of a board and pointers whereon and wherewith theusual plays and interesting conditions of a game of baseball may beproduced and the board is operated under the rules of base-balladaptable thereto.

The accompanying drawings illustrate thedevice as follows:

Figure l is a plan ofthe board, showing the concentric circular seriesof notations and the pointers adapted to traverse same. Fig. 2 is a viewof the pointer-pivoting device, this view being in section.

It is thought that, at this time, the game of base-ball is sufficientlywell'known to need no extended description here. Suffice it to say, thata ball is pitched and batted by the batsman, the direction in which theball is driven by the bat constituting the distinguishing feature of theplay and the fact as to whether it is caught before striking the groundor if not caught, whether it is fielded in time to prevent the runnergaining one or more bases being the condition of said batsman being outor a runner (called safe) respectively. This device, then, is dividedinto two sections, each of which has certain divisions and each of whichis provided with a pointer capable of designating any Aradial seriesthereof.

The outer circle 1 has divisions wherein are letters B F, S and ILsignifying, respectively, ball (a ball pitched outside of the statedlimits, and a certain number ot' which entitle the batsman to become arunner), foul (a ball struck by the batsman which does not fall withinfair limits) strike (a fair pitched ball, which is missed by thebatsman) and hit (which is a ball batted in a direction extended intofair grounds). The next circle, 2, is correlatively divided and in thedivisions radially inward from the divisions of the circle l requiringby their designation that direction be given a batted ball, are theletters and figures as follows, namely: 13, 2, C, R, FC andotherinitials of certain players into whose territory the ball isindicated to have been batted these referring respectively to thepitcher, second baseman, catcher, right-fielder, and so forth, thelatter meaningin connection with the F in the circle l radially outwardtherefrom, that a foulliy has been batted to catcher, or to any otherplayer whose initial takes the place of the C in the symbol FC. Theinitials ot' all of the nine players usually on the tield should beinserted in the divisions of the circle 2, and, as before stated, theball which is batted as indicated bythe outer one of the radial seriesof symbols or abbreviations is batted into the territoryof the playerindicated by any one of the symbols which may come under the pointer atthe same time therewith. The longer pointer A, indicates positions ofthe circles l and 2, and is pivotally'mounted on the pivot Cconcentrically with the circles. The circle 3, being the next oneinwardly, is also divided radially and has alternately' therein theletters S and O signifying respectively safe (that the ball has not beencaught or lielded with suflicient promptness to prevent the batsmanreaching the first base) and out (that the reverse of said conditionshas taken place), and the batsman is hence indicated to be either arunner7 or is retired by being caught out or put out by timely ielding.

Ve now come to consider the means for indicating the condition of eachrunner which may be allowed by the rules in regard to runners to movefrom one base to another. The

circles l, 5, 6, and 7, govern respectively the h IOO which is mountedon the pivot C and moves thereon independently of the pointer A.

Having thus described my invention, What Iclaim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. In a game board, a series of symbols arranged in three concentriccircles, one series being the initials of base-ball terms indicatingplays ot' the batsman, one being symbols indicating direction of battedball, and one being initials indicating the result of the elders play, apointer adapted to traverse said series of symbols and means forindicating the progress of runners around the bases.

2. A game-board having thereon seven concentric circles divided radiallyinto sections,

each section of the larger circle containing one of the letters 13, F, Sor H, the

next smaller circle containing the initial of a fielders position, thenext circle bearing in its sections alternately the letters S and 0, andthe remaining four circles bearing in their sections the letters S and Oassociated diversely with the number or letter of a base in the runnerspath, and pointers adapted to traverse said sections, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

FREDERICK C. STOCKDELL. Witnesses:

ALBERT P. Woon, HARDIE L. KEITH.

